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FILE - In this Jan. 24, 2019, file photo, Wilber Ernesto Martinez-Guzman, 19, of El Salvador, is escorted into the courtroom for his initial appearance in Carson City Justice Court in Carson City, Nev. The Nevada Supreme Court struck down a deadline Friday, April 9, 2021, that a district judge set later this month for the Salvadoran immigrant's lawyers to file a motion claiming he's intellectually disabled and therefore can't be executed if convicted of murdering a Reno couple and two other woman. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner, File)
Nevada justices strike down deadline in death penalty case

By Scott Sonner Apr. 09, 2021 03:56 PM EDT

FILE - In this May 20, 2019, file photo, Wilber Ernesto Martinez-Guzman, from El Salvador, appears in Washoe District Court in Reno, Nev. A death penalty dispute goes before Nevada's Supreme Court Wednesday, April 7, 2021, when justices hear arguments about how long Martinez-Guzma's lawyers should have to prove he's intellectually disabled and therefore can't be executed if convicted of four murders. (Andy Barron/The Reno Gazette-Journal via AP, Pool, File)
Nevada Supreme Court hears venue fight in quadruple killing

By Scott Sonner Apr. 07, 2021 07:10 AM EDT

FILE - In this Dec. 23, 2015, file photo, a sign is seen in the window of a bail bonds office across from the Hall of Justice in San Francisco. The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday, March 25, 2021, that judges must consider suspects' ability to pay when they set bail, essentially requiring that indigent defendants be freed unless they are deemed too dangerous to be released awaiting trial. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
California high court: Judges must weigh ability to pay bail

By Don Thompson Mar. 25, 2021 01:24 PM EDT

FILE - In this May 20, 2019, file photo, Wilber Ernesto Martinez-Guzman, from El Salvador, appears in Washoe District Court in Reno, Nev. Nevada’s Supreme Court wants to hear directly from lawyers on both sides in a death penalty dispute over how much more time public defenders should have to try to prove the Salvadoran immigrant is intellectually disabled and can't be executed if convicted of four 2019 Nevada killings. The justices have scheduled oral arguments April 7, 2021, on one of two appeals filed by lawyers representing Martinez-Guzman, 22. (Andy Barron/The Reno Gazette-Journal via AP, Pool, File)
Nevada Supreme Court mulls appeal in 2019 quadruple homicide

By Scott Sonner Mar. 11, 2021 04:56 PM EST

FILE - In this Nov. 3, 2020, file photo, people wait in line to vote at a polling place on Election Day in Las Vegas. The Nevada Supreme Court made Joe Biden's win in the state official on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020, approving the final canvass of the Nov. 3 election. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
Biden win over Trump in Nevada made official by court

By Ken Ritter Nov. 24, 2020 12:39 PM EST

FILE - In this June 9, 2020 file photo, a man walks by a sign for at a mail-in ballot drop-off location at the Clark County Government Center during a nearly all-mail primary election Tuesday, Junein Las Vegas. A Nevada judge has denied a courtroom bid by the Trump campaign and state Republicans to stop the count of mail-in ballots in Las Vegas, the state's most populous and Democratic-leaning county. A co-chairman of the Trump campaign in Nevada said Monday, Nov. 2, 2020 an immediate appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court is being considered. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
Nevada high court asked to stop Vegas-area mail ballot count

By Ken Ritter Nov. 03, 2020 05:46 PM EST

New appeal to Nevada Supreme Court in four 2019 killings

By Scott Sonner Oct. 12, 2020 10:19 AM EDT
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Lawyers for a 21-year-old Salvadoran immigrant accused of killing four northern Nevada residents last year are asking the state Supreme Court...

FILE - In this May 20, 2019 file photo, Wilber Martinez-Guzman from El Salvador appears in Washoe District Court in Reno, Nev. A judge has cleared the way for the Salvadoran immigrant to be tried in Reno for all four homicides he's accused of committing during a six-day crime rampage in two northern Nevada counties in January 2019, but the trial is still at least months away. Washoe County District Judge Connie Steinheimer has scheduled a hearing Wednesday, Sept. 16 on a motion by public defenders for Martinez-Guzman to postpone the trial indefinitely so they can travel to El Salvador to gather information about his background, including his mental capacity. (Andy Barron/Reno Gazette-Journal/Pool via AP, File)
Washoe judge clears way for trial in four 2019 homicides

Sep. 11, 2020 03:33 PM EDT